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My thoughts exactly. This is just complexity for complexity's sake. Useful as an exercise, but the -h flag already does this is an even more readable manner.

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This works with sorting, and it's easier to pick big files out at a glance. I would use this as often as -h

`ls -lhS` works just fine to sort with human-readable sizes, at least on Fedora.

You could also use 'ls -lh | sort -h'.

I believe that's only supported in newer versions of sort.

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